Betsy Powell reports: A Toronto woman says the billing practices of Rogers Wireless Inc. led to her husband discovering her extramarital affair. Now the woman, whose husband walked out, is suing the communications giant for $600,000 for alleged invasion of privacy and breach of contract, the results of which she says have ruined her life….
Category: Non-U.S.
Gary McKinnon’s appeal gets new hope with new government
Gary McKinnon’s mother and supporters in the U.K. are hopeful that the new Lib-Con coalition government will reverse the decision of the previous government and block extraditing McKinnon to the U.S.. The U.S. wants McKinnon to stand trial here for hacking charges that date back to 2001 and 2002. Both candidates had said that they…
UK: Outrage at secret probe into 47,000 innocent flyers
Jason Lewis reports: Police secretly investigated the travel habits, family, friends and backgrounds of 47,000 innocent people last year after they bought plane tickets to fly into and out of Britain. The intrusiveness has provoked fury among civil liberties campaigners and now may be stopped by Britain’s new coalition Government. The flyers were singled out…
Google Data Admission Angers Europe
Kevin J. O’Brien reports on the European reaction to Google’s disclosure that it had inadvertently collected personal data while collecting WiFi data as part of its Street View data collection. Germany had already been introducing legislation to curb Google, and this latest disclosure has seemingly just fanned the flames: … But in Germany, Google’s collection…